Cyber Chief

By Sebastian Sprenger / October 19, 2009 at 5:00 AM

It's official -- President Obama has nominated National Security Agency Director Army Lt. Gen Keith Alexander to lead the recently created U.S. Cyber Command, the Pentagon announced on Friday. The job would come with a fourth star.

The new Cyber Command, at least initially, is part of U.S. Strategic Command. As in the case of other combatant commands, it will consist of several service component commands. The Army, for its part, recently agreed on an organizational construct for an Army Cyber Forces Command, as Inside the Army reported earlier this month.

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